Indian hospital hires bouncers to deter attacks

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Indian hospital hires bouncers to deter attacks

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There has been no violence (at hospitals) since the bouncers were hired.

10 September,2012 12:31 pm

Pradeep Kumar works as a bouncer in India. Not at a nightclub, but at another workplace where violence is common in the country: a hospital.He and his burly colleagues keep the emergency and labor rooms from filling up with patients often agitated relatives and friends. They were hired at a New Delhi hospital in the spring, soon after friends of an emergency-room patient punched a doctor in the face and went on a rampage with hockey sticks.The staff at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital says there has been no violence since the bouncers were hired. But Dr. Narendra Saini, a spokesman for the Indian Medical Association, says most Indian hospitals cannot afford such security measures.Saini says thousands of attacks occur in Indian hospitals every year.